The Travel Agency - The Travel Agency 1968 (full album)
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- Опубликовано: 11 ноя 2020
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Line up / Musicians
Steve Haehl - guitar, vocals
Michael S. Aydelotte - bass
Francisco Lupica - drums
Tracks Listing
01. What's A Man
02. Sorry You Were Born
03. Cadillac George
04. Lonely Seabird
05. So Much Love
06. Make Love
07. That's Good
08. I'm Not Dead
09. She Understands
10. Come To Me
11. You Will Be There
12. Old Man
Bonus Tracks
13. Time
14. Made For You
15. Emit
16. What's A Man
17. She Understands
United States ,Psychedelic Pop ,Psychedelic Rock
"This band is totally anonymous other than having Frank Davis as a member. Davis was an associate of the Texas band Fever Tree, and wrote the two-minute blast "Grand Candy Young Sweet" for their second album. Though much less well known, this LP is better than any of the four by Fever Tree.
The opening track, "What's A Man" is more relevant today than it was then! A conversation between a father and his hawkish son (wasn't it the other way around back then?), it has Iraq all over it: ("You can't imagine what I'm thinking / We've got to fight them while they're small / Or their disease will soon be spreading / And then we'll never kill them all"). I don't know what Ann Coulter was doing in '68, but if that doesn't sound like something straight out of her lunatic rantings, I don't know what does!
There's nothing else here that's quite that powerful here, but the Beatlesque "Sorry You Were Born", and the fuzz-laden "Cadillac George" are terrific on their own terms.
The group gets mystical, with mixed results. "Lonely Seabird" is spellbinding, but the extended, raga-like "That's Good" is simply somnolent. The classical guitar framed "So Much Love", and "You Will Be There" sound like renaissance madrigals. If anything, the group was adept at writing and performing an impressive variety of material.
There's unrealized hit potential here. Both "She Understands", and "Come To Me" are instantly catchy, if only someone had been around to catch them.
The album peters out with the closing track, "Old Man", which lifts the guitar riff from "Peggy Sue", but there's still enough here to make me wish for a follow - up."
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The Travel Agency [p]
1968 Vinyl LPViva / V-36017 United States
The Travel Agency
1997 CDHead / HEAD 4197 Europe
The Travel Agency
1999 CDChrome Gold / 9001 United Kingdom
The Travel Agency Bonus Tracks
2012 CDKismet / KISCD4028 
Видеоклипы
01. What's A Man
02. Sorry You Were Born 5:02
03. Cadillac George 8:08
04. Lonely Seabird 12:48
05. So Much Love 16:06
06. Make Love 19:05
07. That's Good 21:29
08. I'm Not Dead 28:27
09. She Understands 30:47
10. Come To Me 33:57
11. You Will Be There 37:10
12. Old Man 39:26
Bonus Tracks
13. Time 41:38
14. Made For You 44:12
15. Emit 46:21
16. What's A Man 48:56
17. She Understands 52:03
Could you call this music prog-jazz-rock.....apart from genre, it's a VERY groovy band and album. Ty.
This album is subtle but the song “That’s Good” has all the riffs and melody for a heavy rock classic, unfortunately it is rendered as an anemic folky ballad. It’s a very enjoyable and interesting album overall and some songs get better with repeated listening.
Nothing to say
...спасибо за трек-лист!
Россия,Саратов
РОМАН,филофонист-меломан 🎩🎧
Anyone have the lyrics for the Lonely Seabird song? This music is magic! ❤️🔥 I would like to sing it, but I can't find the lyrics anywhere. gratitude!
I'm 55 years late to the show, but I'm here now.
62. . . “Late to the ‘68 psych- show..” But I’m f-ing MADE IT! - grateful I am listening to the only type of music that brings me peace & happiness in this majorly f-Ed UP w o r l d of ours .. I will never hear all the great psych vinyl of the past, - but this one is the dose I need right now late in the early AM . . . That was a 7-year old lad back in ‘68…
This record is off the beaten track, with uncommon chord changes, winding melodies, interesting rhythm patterns and an unusual production for the period. Total gem !
Evidently those lamb chop sideburned phil spector wannabes recorded every weary band that walked into their studios. And thank God they did. I've been listening to utube albums 1968-1972 for years now. So so much talent and expression. Clearly there was something in the water back then that's missing now.
Lsd is what's missing in the water these days
oh its around my friend you just gotta sift through wads and wads of shit but i gotta assure you theres a quite a few of us still drinkin that strange water and makin stranger tunes with real instruments
@@shawncawley9189 More likely the insane increase in estrogen, anti-depressants and other hormones in the general water supply than a lack of LSD.
@@coyotehinderstein37 What's your group called.
@@shawncawley9189God, they should've kept meth in the market to.
This is amazing. Thank you.
A cathedral like organ begins this West Coast psychedelic trip.This is happy hippie flower power music. Enjoy the ride. You'll find it to be most enjoyable.
I listened twice today!
@FloodyBoy Randal You can keep the freakbeat, i'm hoping for something in Exactly this balance, a sprinkling of sunshine pop to sugar the mixture :)
this band is surviving the whole album test, i'm assuming that this band is no longer a band; so i'm glad they got to record this. i love all the harmonies, great trio!
Man...just got through the first 3 tracks. I sez to myself, this isn't that bad for a mellow album but then....the crazy guitar freakout of Cadillac George. Whaaaaaaatt!
Booking my psychedelic flight with The Travel Agency 😈😈😈
This album is a gem, wish it were more well known.
I was 11 years old when this album came out. And just the last 5 years trying to hear all the bands from back then. I find it impossible to do. Another superb example of great artists. Album covers was a big thing back then. Thank you
Way too ahead of its time... Just F****** AMAZING !!! "Lonely Seabird"... what a gem holy sh*t !!!
MY GOOD TASTE IN MUSIC BROUGHT ME HERE🙏🏼
Loving all this old psychedelia. Far out!!!!
Спасибо автору за то,что познакомил с творчеством этой интересной группы. Отличная музыка из 60-х.
Good times, nice music and cool album!!!! Thebestdream I had thanks.
Yes thanks so much. Without people like you many bands would rarely if ever be heard
Ive seen a lot of negative reviews for this on the net....however i think its superb👍👍👍👍
I remember this album as one that I wanted to get but it never rose to the top of my list in 1968, because YES, 1968 was that freaking good for music. The White Album, Music From Big Pink, Cheap Thrills, Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills Super Session (hear that little nod to Season of the Witch around 15:35 ?) Wheels of Fire, At Folsom Prison, Waiting for the Sun, Electric Ladyland, Lady Soul, Crown of Creation, Children of the Future, Song to a Seagull, Hair (cast album,) Beggar's Banquet, Bookends, Odessey and Oracle... bands just forming in 1968 included Free, Crosby Stills and Nash, Deep Purple, King Crimson, and Led Zeppelin (still called the New Yardbirds.) An album this good only went unnoticed because you could buy a great new album every single week in 1968 and still not get every great album being released. That was the problem... these poor guys ended up like the Zombies, who released one of the great albums of all time in Odessey and Oracle in 1968, but they were broke and disbanded before the album got really noticed almost a year later. They just had so much competition.
Deep Purple had 2 albums out in 1968
VANILLA FUDGE "Renaissance"; PINK FLOYD "A Saucerful of Secrets"; FAMILY "Music in a Doll's House"; SPIRIT "S/T"; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA "S/T"; GUN "Gun"; IRON BUTTERFLY "Heavy" and "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida...
@@Hoolaballoo Right you are... and you could name another 50 pretty easily. Not only that, but most artists who released a great album in 1968 had done something as good or better in 1967. Jimi Hendrix, Cream, the Beatles, the Doors... If you start putting together a list of albums from 1967 through 1969 it becomes overwhelming. Funny that there was no way a band could inexpensively self produce and publicize an album in those years like there is now - with home computerized recording and internet distribution - yet the quality of the music that came to the top of the heap was quite different than what we have today.
Yes those were the days my friend, I was born in 1955 and travelled a similar journey to you, the artists, music and diversity of the 60's and 70's will never be repeated. So many fabulous artists that it is easy to forget them, we were just fortunate.
@@sirborisdumpling6161 1955, me too! :)
Real music-- sounds great!
What an amazing gem .
It sounds just like great music should sound. I love it
🎼👍 ThankYou! Nice music !!!😷💪
🤜🤛
¡Guau, pedazo de grupo y la letra no pasa de moda! ¿Qué es un hombre?
Great musicians, great sound, great lyrics, well produced. Why have I never heard of these guys? I'm 54, 1 year younger than this high quality album.
Listening to "Cadillac George" at the time of this comment, so I agree with you, The Guess Who is a good call . . . Also the write- up or the description of this fine album (so far) is very well written !!
Elfogadható. Később meghallgatom.
Very good album... thanks
This is a very good group! Great playing and vocals..intelligent,touching,at times humorous
and relevant lyrics...like a very cool above average pop band well worth listening to...cheers!
Yes! Very good Album 😎👍❤ thx
a very pleasant surprise ... thank you very much !!! ... I'm listening .... and listen to the rhythmic bases of primus and a lot of others. punk, folk, rock, fusion....an exquisite "classic" touch .... exceptionally good !!!!..(1968... WOAOH !!!!) Gracias a "El mejor sueño que he tenido" ............
This is a treasure! Thank you so much for uploading it! It's new to me and perfect for this gloomy day
This is an excellent find. Thanks!
Good vibes. Thanks .
They are sounding like the Guess Who to me, really quite nice.
I heard about three seconds where the guitarist used an effect reminiscent of three seconds of some early Randy Bachman.
"Sorry You Were Born"!!!!! Wow..... As touching as it can ever get.... RUclips really does its job so well sometimes! - I was listening to "Cressida" earlier today ,and now i have been brought HERE!! Really great.... I can also hear certain similarities with "Chrome Cyrcus" ("Caddilac George" i am hearing now) . I'm really digging it..... Thanks so much for uploading and sharing this with the listeners all over the Globe. Hello from Ukrainian Kingdom )))
Прекрасная группа! I fell in love with these guys.
I remember I sampled something off this back in the 90's, must be an open drum break on one of the songs. Always liked this album.
Great thanks for the upload very consistent set of beautiful songs
Thank you! This was superb! 💜
...thank you for this incredibly beautiful album full of mood, invention and musicality:)
Kellemes hangulatú,nagyon hallgatható zene.Köszönet érte.
Easy living beautiful sung
produced
folk - hippie - album
which
i didn' t know
Thank so much
for this
treasure - find
Very
delicate
are
the
beautiful
voice - harmonies
Cool album cover too!
Francesco Lupico later developed his own musical instruments including the Cosmic Beam. He recorded an album in 1976 as Francisco called Cosmic Beam Experience. He also used that Cosmic Beam on Star Trek: The Motion Picture for some of those eerie sound effects.
Legendary album
Bravo :-)
Excellent, thanks!
Reminds me of a Hawkwind album cover. Please swallow your blue dreamer, and put the helmet on your head. Zowww👽
Nice discovery ....Again ;p Thumbs up T. I . H . !!
I love music✌️😎 gracias por pasarla
very very well..................................................................
Heureka eszembe jutott! Smokie. Ők koppintottak le ezt a gitarriff-et 1975 Ben a Dönt ply your rock and roll C számukban.
Wow what a great lp. If I would known it existed I would have bought it. It has a Beatles psych feel to it. But still their own.
Thanx! I need this right now.
Thank god this was the gift from My RUclips algorithm THE FIRST ONE TODAY❤ PSYCHEDELIC REVOLUTION 2023 5/4/23
Wow...proprio un bel album!
Beautiful!
Спасибо!
🤘👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹🤘 Znakomity fantastyczny fenomenalny mocarny potężny rock dla mnie petarda ogień bomba super super
Wlasnie....!
@@vano758 🤘👹😄👹🤘 pozdrawiam
@@januszjankes6423 , zespol bardzo wspanialy!! Witam pana - ze Lwowa!))
@@vano758 tak jest zajebista muza Kraków pozdrawia Lwów piękne miasto 🤘👹😄😜🤘
@@januszjankes6423, to jest takie miłe, że pan też lubi ten zespół. Dobra muzyka dla dobrych ludzi. Pokój, dobrobyt i dobre zdrowie dla nas wszystkich! Iwan
I had a copy LP. In the 80s. Good to see it hear it here.
"Esta banda é totalmente anônima, exceto por Frank Davis como membro. Davis era um associado da banda texana Fever Tree e escreveu a explosão de dois minutos" Grand Candy Young Sweet "para seu segundo álbum. Embora muito menos conhecido, este LP é melhor do que qualquer um dos quatro da Fever Tree.
A faixa de abertura, "What's A Man" é mais relevante hoje do que era antes! Uma conversa entre um pai e seu filho falcão (não era o contrário naquela época?), Tem o Iraque por toda parte: ("Você não pode imaginar o que estou pensando / Temos que lutar contra eles enquanto eles são pequenos / Ou sua doença logo se espalhará / E então nunca vamos matar todos eles "). Não sei o que Ann Coulter estava fazendo em 68, mas se isso não parece algo saído diretamente de seus discursos lunáticos, não sei o que parece!
Não há nada aqui que seja tão poderoso aqui, mas o Beatlesque "Sorry You Were Born" e o fuzz-carregado "Cadillac George" são fantásticos em seus próprios termos.
O grupo fica místico, com resultados mistos. "Lonely Seabird" é fascinante, mas o extenso e parecido com um raga "That's Good" é simplesmente sonolento. O violão clássico emoldurado por "So Much Love" e "You Will Be There" soam como madrigais renascentistas. Na verdade, o grupo era adepto da escrita e da execução de uma variedade impressionante de material.
Há um potencial de sucesso não realizado aqui. Tanto "She Understands" quanto "Come To Me" são instantaneamente cativantes, se alguém estivesse por perto para pegá-los.
O álbum esgota-se com a faixa final, "Old Man", que levanta o riff de guitarra de "Peggy Sue", mas ainda há o suficiente aqui para me fazer desejar uma continuação. "
Excelente historia gracias
Excelente, inspirador.
I listen to this album daily! I must find it on vinyl......
I've got one from the 60's. I'll sell it to you but there's a few scratches. I played it for decades!
@@marcfriedlander2479 Are you from the UK? How much?
@@Menticknap USA…LA….make me an offer
I was the only disc jockey in LA playing this album in the late 70s and early 80s
Thanks
Great record TNX
bestdreamihad has done it again! ear candy
Truly enjoyed this gem brother dream! Thank you!
They played at my high school about 1969. We had a regular assembly for it. To this day, I remember What's a Man!
Wow!❤
I really like the first two minutes of this album...;-)
The Lonely Rocker digs this kinda music! great stuff!
The rhythm guitar playing on "What A Man" reminds me of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
Someone earlier in this thread commented about reading many bad reviews of this album. That's unsurprising. Many people don't like anything or anyone different. Carlos Santana would say they're "tuned to the frequency of meat and potatoes."
Love this
Incredible album
Cool!!! 😎✌
Very fine find from the album attic.
Now, I've heard of Travel Agency, but I'm not as fond of this album, until now. This really got my attention just at the start. Amazing album, wish I knew about it earlier!
A few have mentioned "Smells Like Teen Spirit" sounding similar to that "What's a Man?" riff (it does), but " Lonesome Seagull" really gives me "Season of the Witch" vibes throughout. too. Nice album.
Crazy.. I thought same thing upon first hearing, then got to thinking how I could never stand that whiny grungepop anthem but then proceeded to thoroughly enjoy 'what's a man'
Great Album! Have 2 copies.
I got it...cool music
Def. has a sonic quality characteristic of that musical 'era'....
These songs and chord changes are SO indie before it existed! I hear guided by voices here. I would bet Robert Pollard has this in his collection
whoever designed that album cover is a pyscadelic genius because it looks pretty groovy normally but when you take some acid or some shit and stair at it the bird fuckin fly and than theres optical illusions that im pretty sure i didnt see when i was straight albums good as fuck to
Make Love sounds like an indie song that could come out now. Blew me away.
Fantástico!!!!!
That opening keyboard sound, like a cross between a Magnus chord organ and a sick accordion - but I like it.
sensacional
I want Lonely Seabird lyrics so much. I can make out a good 75% of them, but the remaining 25% evade me.
Anyone have the lyrics for the Lonely Seabird song? This music is magic! ❤️🔥 I would like to sing it, but I can't find the lyrics anywhere. gratitude!
There's a group on here that remade it. Cool little version. I was like they must've used your lyrics that you gave us on the other page.
I was having a nice day and you had to go and mention Ann Coulter
Show !!!
My god I was thinking bout joining the army
good
Wow! Those 'bonus tracks' have a great poppy feel to them. Beside alternate What's A Man (single?) , Same recording sessions?
2:20 ...I thought it was "Smells like teen spirit" :-D
...and you are not the only one :)
I thought this was Cobain’s dad
You too, huh...?
Kurt might have heard this somewhere. He lived in Olympia a big music loving town with scads of record shops and record hounds
Sasha king crimson
Класс👏👏👏
I would say they were about one musician short of having a compelling sound. That's the fine line between transcendence and obscurity.
Just found this record for free in mint condition at the dump.
🤟😎
sing "i'm gonna love you too" over "old man" chords & be amazed!
Anyone else notice that opening guitar riff at 2:18 sounds a LOT like the intro to "smells like teen spirit"?
You are absolutely right.
no, it sounds like Sappy